No Letter to the Colonel

No Letter to the Colonel , one of the greatest writers of our time. b style="">One of Gabriel García Márquez's most beautiful long stories. The story of an old retired soldier who realizes that his services fighting for his country are unrewarded. The funny, yet tragic story of a retired colonel who waits every Friday with his wife and rooster for his pension, which never comes. Undoubtedly, No Letter to the Colonel played a role in Gabriel García Márquez being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. Every scene described by the master of magical realism, every behavior of the characters, sings of the joy of living in a seemingly hopeless world and challenges death and loneliness. Each sentence breaks the silence of the vast emptiness of life. This bitterly sarcastic story by Gabriel García Márquez, who says, "Image is the tool to reach reality," is almost a masterpiece of visual literature.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)